From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-Id: <200306080302.h5832JF11042@math.Princeton.EDU>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: RE: [9fans] Dual Boot: OpenBSD <=> Plan9
From: John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Sat,  7 Jun 2003 23:02:19 -0400
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"Charles Smith (chas)" <chas@cisco.com>:
>My 11yr & 15yr old daughters mostly boot FreeBSD but I am getting them
>"gently" into Plan9. They refuse to move untill there is a Web Browser
>and the concepts in the rio interface are a bit "out  there" for them at
>the moment. Well as it is they have achieved top marks in Geekdom at
>their schools for running FreeBSD as their desktop. A comment from my 15
>year old this-morning was "Boy dad nethack is such a cool game!", it
>brought a tear to my eye and I am one PROUD DAD :)

This reminds my of a conversation I had with my 8 year old son as I was
installing plan9 on his machine:

	Anthony: What games are there on plan9?
	Me (somewhat embarassed): Well, none actually.
	Long Pause.
	Anthony: Does it have a C compiler?
	Me: Yes.
	Anthony: Okay. Then we can write some.

I must admit that he didn't actually follow through on the last bit.  He
seems to spend most of his time playing freeciv on FreeBSD.
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469